Amanda Todd honored by a Memorial Service in Her Neighborhood

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Almost more than 600 people congregated at the Red Robinson Show theatre in Coquitlam on Sunday for giving a final tribute farewell to Amanda Todd. Every house in the neighborhood was decorated with Christmas lights twinkling all over the block of the Vancouver suburb where she once lived.

It was an extremely touching commemorative tribute to the teen, which would have turned 16 on Nov. 27. According to some files on Todd’s computer, she was planning for her upcoming birthday before she committed suicide. Just like any other year, Todd was hoping she would see her Port Coquitlam home lit with Christmas lights at the time of her birthday party.

This Sunday, the entire cul-de-sac was shimmering with Christmas lights. Although instead of the birthday party, it was Amanda’s family, friends, neighbors, teachers, coaches and everyone else who was a part of her life gathering in a memorial service to honor her life.

Mother of the teenage girl, Carol Todd, read a letter during the service, which she had written to her daughter, saying that “Amanda, you will be happy to know this year, most of the neighborhood friends, I think all of them now, have already put up their lights in honor of you.” Carol mentioned to all the attendees that even though her daughter is no more, she has left behind “a larger than life message that has sparked the world and has made it opens its eyes, its ears and its hearts.”